The increasingly mobile nature of technology enables computing devices to go out into the field with workers. And computing devices leaving the office face the same perils as their human counterparts. Like workers in the field, the technology needs to be tough enough to survive adverse conditions.

Organizations need the power of modern workstations more than ever before, since the complexity and sophistication of enterprise workloads continues to increase in the digital age. The performance gap between current workstations and new, innovative ones is becoming more apparent as the manipulation of large data sets —and the rise of emerging technology like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and production and consumption of 4K graphics —become a standard across the globe.

The universe of IT tools developed to help government agencies achieve their missions is rapidly expanding. So, too, the means for acquiring them. GSA has moved to streamline acquisition of IT tools and services that combat cyberhackers, migrate operations to the cloud and use professional-services providers, to name a few.